Besides reducing your carbon footprint, using public transit’ll give you lots of personal health and social benefits. Even the Mayor’s doing it! How to get moving:
1. Pick a line, any line. Start easy, and just get to know the one bus line closest you. You may find it’s all you need to run all your errands!
2. Get a bus pass so you’re not always scrambling for change. Less-frequent transit takers may find a Metro pass isn’t the best deal, but things’ll get easier once the tap card system’s fully implemented.
3. Have a driver take you to the airport. Both The Flyaway and the Big Blue Bus Rapid 3 will whisk you off to LAX — with no stress on your part from fighting traffic or paying for parking. [Update: More options for green and easy airport travel!]
4. Become a transit advocate! Overwhelmed by the choices? Get involved with the stuff that affects you. The Subway to the Sea and the Expo Line are popular current projects. For background, figure out what the Metro board is, exactly.
5. Join a transit advocacy group. Find one working on an issue near and dear to your heart.
Photo by FredCamino
Do you know of any pro-measure R advocacy? I’d love to spend weekends canvassing to promote measure R, but I’ve yet to find as much as a vote yes on R web site (I guess I could do that one myself if I had to). I did some countercampaigning this afternoon when the BRU people were at the same corner where I was waiting for a bus.
Comment by Don Hosek — September 20, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Well, Metro has its “informational” Measure R site up. Since the agency isn’t allowed to push a measure, the info on there’s supposed to be neutral — so it’s not gonna say vote yes. Still, a good place to start –
Comment by Siel — September 22, 2008 @ 4:46 pm